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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Roger Waters
Vocals
Don Henley
Vocals
Guo Yi & The Peking Brothers
Bass
Andy Fairweather Low
Acoustic Guitar
Jeff Beck
Electric Guitar
John Patitucci
Electric Bass Guitar
Patrick Leonard
Piano
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Roger Waters
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Roger Waters
Producer
Patrick Leonard
Producer
Nick Griffiths
Co-Producer
Hayden Bendall
Engineer
Jerry Jordan
Engineer
Stephen McLaughlan
Engineer
Mike Bosley
Assistant Engineer
Andy Bradfield
Assistant Engineer
Chris Brown
Assistant Engineer
Brian Burrows
Assistant Engineer
Ross Donaldson
Assistant Engineer
Steve Heinke
Assistant Engineer
John Lowson
Assistant Engineer
Marc Moreau
Assistant Engineer
Dary Sulich
Assistant Engineer
Roy Sweeting
Assistant Engineer
Jeremy Wheatley
Assistant Engineer
James Guthrie
Mixing Engineer
Sean O'Dwyer
Mixing Engineer
Doug Sax
Mastering Engineer
Ron Lewter
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We were watching TV
Watching TV
We were watching TV
Watching TV
[Verse 2]
In Tiananmen Square
Lost my baby there
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes
[Verse 3]
She was a short order pastry chef
In a dim sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
She had shiny hair
She was the daughter of an engineer
[Verse 4]
Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose?
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes
[Verse 5]
She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes
She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs
She was a student of philosophy
[Verse 6]
Won't you grieve with me
For my yellow rose?
Shed a tear
For her bloodstained clothes
[Verse 7]
She had shiny hair
She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes
She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs
She was the daughter of an engineer
[Verse 8]
So get out your pistols
Get out your stones
Get out your knives, cut them to the bone
They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine
[Verse 9]
They built the dark, Satanic mills
That manufacture hell on earth
They bought the front row seats on Calvary
They are irrelevant to me
[Verse 10]
And I grieve for my sister
[Verse 11]
We were watching TV
Watching TV
We were watching TV
Watching TV
[Verse 12]
She wore a white bandanna that said
"Freedom now"
She thought the Great Wall of China
Would come tumblin' down
She was a student
Her father was an engineer
[Verse 13]
Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose?
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes
[Verse 14]
Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
That no good, low down dirty rat
Who used to order his troops
To fire on the women and children
Imagine that
Imagine that
[Verse 15]
And in the spring of '48
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate
And he kicked that old dictator Chaing
Out of state of China
[Verse 16]
Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
And they armed the island of Quemoy
The shells were flyin' across the China Sea
And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory
Called Taiwan
[Verse 17]
And she is different from Cro-Magnon man
She's different from Anne Boleyn
She's different from the Rosenbergs
And from the unknown Jew
She's different from the unknown Nicaraguan
Half superstar, half victim
She's a victor star, conceptually new
And she is different from the dodo
And from the Kankanbono
She's different from the Aztec
And from the Cherokee
She's everybody's sister
She's symbolic of our failure
She's the one in fifty million
Who can help us to be free
Because she died on TV
Written by: Roger Waters